Journal of Medical Case Reports A medical scan showed live hookworms in a woman’s stomach, shocking doctors who said she didn’t have the telltale gastrointestinal symptoms of the parasitic ...

Doctors didn’t know why the woman wasn’t getting better after being given medication for anemia and a bacterial stomach ...

Stomach-churning images have captured the moment doctors ... inserting a camera into the gut via the mouth—and found live hookworms crawling in her gut. Tests also showed that hookworm eggs ...

I'm referring, of course, to hookworms, the blood-feeding parasites aptly named for the hook-like heads they use to latch onto their victims. In the US, they're most often found in international ...